Interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer, isaac kline became more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office of the Weather Bureau in washington, d. C. To decide whether or not a hurricane was coming and whether or not you needed to put up hurricanes warning flags. The local meterologists such as isaac kline had left latitude in calling the shots. So on the morning of september 8,
The Santa Cruz Mountains in the oakland area right the Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet or so the diablo range also looking at some very gusty winds there and that will be the case some of these gusts of 25 to maybe 45 Miles Per Hour maybe the gusting higher than that in spots are going to see that especially over the top of the mountains very very gusty winds right latest on the computer models you can see youve got a little bit of a breeze out there in fact a little bit of a sea breeze returned today but not for long all of a sudden we get that offshore wind look at the colors rolling in the bay area and these are down the urban areas got 2030 mile an hour winds down a place like Petaluma Santa Rosa also calistoga sonoma up on the mountain tops. It will be a lot more gusting than that of course we are primed with fire with treasure record breaking heat, so certainly some dangerous weather ahead as fire danger is going to be running extremely high. Thank you or some other big element t
Breathing it in more. I bought for error purifiers from target. So i have air purifiers in my apartment. I close the windows. Thats all i could do. Its the new toilet paper air purifiers. Personal care businesses that have seen customers outdoors, are being forced to shut down again because of the smoky conditions. They just opened up an outdoor area after being closed for six months. They are eager to go back to work but not with the current poor air quality. You can see the fine layer of ash on all the furniture. Many salon operators feel the cities restrictions are not there. Y we are high risk rather than retail that cant Contact Trace and dont have a questionnaire and we are doing all these things to be as safe of as possible. We are left behind and later than these other things that are open. The salon owner got new and good news from the city. They will be able to open indoors with limited capacity beginning on monday. Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A
So as a forecaster when you have to cover for that cover storms into the 5 00 a. M. Forecast, you have to get up really early. It is really challenging. Sometime some time ago, i read erik ons storm larsons book. It is a remarkable account of the worst National Disaster in history, the galveston hurricane of 1900. The book brings to life america at the turnofthecentury and the destruction of the city, at the time the jewel of the south, the new york city to be of the gulf coast. Author joins us here today and brings to life human drama, survival from a massive hurricane that slammed galveston almost 100 years ago, coming up on september 8. Given that it is the 100th anniversary, this is the great time for us to look back on the tragedy in the nonfiction andunt of erik larson the nonfiction account of erik larson. Before i introduce him, i want to discuss the anatomy of hurricanes, how we go about cutting it forecasting, and i want to step back in time to show footage taken after the da
Now at 3 President Trump visits california today amid the states deadly and historic wildfires, several fires have burned more than 3 million acres. So far this year at least 20 people have died in the devastating fires up and down the state. Thank you for joining us at 3 today im Sanaz Tahernia on the campaign trail President Trump made a pit stop in california for a briefing on the states historic wildfire season. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how the briefing went up between the president and the governor actually. Its not yet. This was a very quick trip here to sacramento for the president he was only here for about 2 hours and the primary reason for his visit was to get a briefing from state Emergency Management officials on this wildfire situation here now the president approved 14 federal firefighting grant an emergency disaster declaration along with that so far this season. Trump told reporters just before the briefing he has serious concerns about californias